Talk:Jane Quirk
Evidence[edit]
Jane Quirk wrote a letter to RAP shortly after Chicon II expressing her regret that she had been unable to speak with him in person at the con.
The address on that letter was in Downers Grove, Illinois, and had the same ZIP code as the last known address of Jennie Kilbourna (Rockwood) Quirk (December 16, 1891 – November 1976).
She was also known as Jane; records before the 1940s all called her Jane, and she later went by Jennie.
- Jennie is sometimes a nickname for Jane, and she could well have adopted it later. Great detective work!
- —Leah Zeldes Smith (talk) 03:22, 23 April 2023 (PDT)
Incidentally, "Kilbourna" appears on Find a Grave and I haven't been able to find it elsewhere (presumably a family member entered that data), but I think I understand it: her father's birth mother appears to have died a few weeks after the birth of her last child, when Jane's father was 7, and his father remarried Jennie Kilbourne. "Kilbourna" might be a typo for "Kilbourne" (no evidence for that either), but she was pretty clearly named for her grandmother. — Bee Ostrowsky (talk) 10:50, 24 April 2023 (PDT)
